yes but not for free

they had to trade for them

yes ofc

so what is the point you are trying to make

which is why i stated they just traded immense natural resources and human capital to obtain the capital to buy these things

that any system with the same resources couldve done the same at that time period

practically any system

well then how come a country like india that is rich with resources and human capital did not become superpower

like replace the soviet union with the polish government and you still probably see the same results

india was under colonialism

and their natural resources is far lower per capita

Siberia and the Caucasus represent near endless oil and coal

compare that to germany who had little oil but good quantities of coal and even they were gimped

italy who neither even more so

well it is true they had lots of natural resources but then explain how tsarist russia wasn't so powerful in their time

Britain only got by due to human capital of india

and how modern russia is way less powerful even than russia SFR

tsarist russia didnt exist in the post depression where the US was seeking to expand in exports through machine tools

and russia doesnt exist in pre opac world

and pre china world

you are putting to much emphasis on the US trading with USSR

They would have succeeded even if the US had closed off trade

LOL no

they declined because the world shut off trade

they collapsed because of it

no they collapsed due to revisionism

like im not saying Stalin didnt intelligent things

saying they collapsed due to revisionism is an ideologically and ahistorical viewpoint

like saying Rome fell due to christianity

its cringe

wrong. Capitalism was brought back to the USSR and class contradictions led to its fall

Yeltsin's coup was backed by the bourgeoisie

stalin did good things like actually build industrial bases rather than just relying on foreign production

but thats about it

dude it wasnt even capitalism and they literally just tried to decentralize cause they state couldnt bear its own weight

im not a large fan of capitalism

no gorbachev fucked the economy up with his privatisation reforms

but the soviet alterative was a neat experiment that failed at best

it was fucked before then

hell you can just read about the economic stratification

i'm a critic of the brezhnev era as well